New York, March 30 : The lawyer representing US Vice President Joseph Biden's daughter's 'friend', who claimed having shot a video of her purportedly snorting cocaine, has abandoned the case.

Thomas Dunlap revealed he was no longer the attorney for the man who was trying to sell the 43-minute tape that allegedly showed Ashley Biden taking lines of white powder at a party in Deleware.

New York, Jan 31 : A landmark US bill that provides for 15 billion dollars in economic assistance to Pakistan, as a US frontline ally in combating terrorism over the next
10 years beginning 2009, is legally dead even before it was debated and voted by either chamber of the US bicameral legislature.

Munich - Vice President Joseph Biden is to make a "major" speech about the new US administration's defence and foreign policy at the end of next week in Munich, the organizer of a German conference said Thursday.

Wolfgang Ischinger said the address at the annual Munich security conference would set out the position of the administration of President Barack Obama, which was why Biden was attending rather than the US defence secretary who usually represents Washington.

Washington, Jan. 7 : Incoming U. S. Vice-President Joe Biden's proposed trip to Asia before he leaves his present assignment as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is raising concerns in the corridors of power in Washington.

According to Politico, Biden will be traveling to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Washington, Nov 5 : Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. sees his role in Barack Obama’s Administration as “adviser in chief,” using his decades of experience in the Senate to offer the new US President candid input on domestic and foreign policy issues, his aides have said.

But Biden, a twice-failed presidential candidate, will not use the post in a way many vice presidents have: To make a play for the Oval Office. He has said publicly that he does not intend to run for the presidency again, the Washington Post reported.

Sterling (Virginia, US), Sept. 20: Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Friday that he wanted to end the cowboy mentality of the Bush-McCain era”.

"These guys have worshipped at the shrine of deregulation,” Bidentold about 1,000 supporters at a women's issues rally at Claude Moore Park.

Biden called for short-term, immediate intervention to “staunch the bleeding” in the financial markets and that in the long term, “we have to have a major, major overhaul of how the financial system works.”